Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I might refer to Mr. Smyth, who can speak to the State Claims Agency figure in terms of the attribution. I am not sure, and I do not want to mislead the Chair, if the claim count in 2019 is instant from an incident in previous years that happened to come to fruition in 2019. I would need to check that. The general feature of damages claims against the agency, apart from what we might refer to as public liability slips, trips and falls material, is that they fall into the categories of cases where people pursue a claim because they have either been abused or mistreated by some aspect of the public services or some aspect that the public services have oversight for, or cases of staff who have been assaulted or significantly impacted on by work-related events. They are two of the significant categories of claims. Many of the abuse claims tend to relate to historical events, which may only emerge in subsequent years. Perhaps Mr. Smyth can add to the response to the question relating to claims made in 2019.